Troubleshooting Schooling

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

When we are young, we receive considerable “schooling” from our parents and from the school. We never question that data because it is all new to us. We are told that data in an authoritative manner, so we are not encouraged to question it. This amounts to your understanding being suppressed or conditioned. This has unwanted consequences later.

The truth is: as you understand better, you know what to do better. The first step is to clear up your feelings of not understanding  by using The Listing Process.

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Find the Key Subject

Make a list of all the areas of knowledge about which you feel some understanding to be missing. These could be school subjects, job skills, or life skills. Put them all in one list.

Next, arrange the items of that list in the order that you would like to handle them. As you do this, you may find that you need to break some of the broad subjects  down into smaller parts increasing the number of items. Do not get rid of any item at this stage—simply arrange or rearrange them in the best possible sequence in which they should be handled. Give it a good thought and enough time. 

Continue until you come up with a well-ordered list that you are satisfied with. This should bring all your scattered attention to just this list of subjects.

The first item on that list is the subject that you need to handle first.

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Find the Reason for that Subject

The first hole in understanding occurs when a person does not know what the subject is all about, and why he should be studying it. The hole remains a hole even when he fills it with assumptions. See The First Hole in Understanding.

The subject title may give you a clue. Look up the meaning of the words in the title of that subject and clear them up thoroughly. See Word Meanings. Make sure the subject is what you thought it to be. Get the correct orientation on that subject. Find a good reason to study that subject.

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Clear up the Discomfort 

Next, you want to handle any force that went along with the schooling in that subject. See Viewpoint Expansion. Follow the steps of this exercise with the following question:

“In your schooling in __(the subject)__has anything been suppressed?”

Contemplating on this question may bring to mind some traumatic or unpleasant experiences from your school years. This is because pain always accompanies conditioning. If you still feel uncomfortable about the subject, they try out some more buttons provided in this exercise. 

You may end this step when you do not feel aversion towards the subject any more. You should be able to confront this subject comfortably.

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Clear up the Fundamentals

Now that you feel comfortable about the subject, the next step is to clear up the fundamental concepts. See Key Word List & Glossary. A logically arranged Key Word List for the fundamentals of a subject may already have been worked out and made available. There may be a Glossary to go along with it too. If not then make them up as follows.

Start by making a list of all the key words that come to your mind from the vocabulary of that subject. Start arranging them in a logical order. For example, the key words of MATHEMATICS may be listed as follows: Digit, Number, Place Value, Counting, Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, Dividing, Whole Numbers, Integers, Rational Numbers, Rational Numbers, and so on.

A dozen or so key words will suffice. As you clear up the meaning of these key words, you may get a better idea of their logical order. Rearrange them as necessary. If you find holes in that logical order, find the missing key words. Do this until you have all the key words to cover the fundamental of that subject. You may also keep a record of the definitions of these key words to put together a Glossary.

Once you have the logically arranged Key Word List, and a Glossary to go along with it, make sure you understand the meaning of these key words.

Now you have the logical context to understand the information provided on the subject. See The Second Hole in Understanding. You may now see clearly what you understand and what you don’t.

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Other Subjects

Repeat this whole cycle again to find the next Key Subject. Clear up its fundamentals by following the same sequence of steps as above.

Keep repeating this cycle until you no longer have the mysterious feeling of not having understood something. You will now have the certainty on what you know, and what you don’t know.

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Continuing Study

Now that you have cleared up the fundamentals, you may study, in detail, those subjects that you are interested in. See Subsequent Holes in Understanding.

As you select textbooks and start to study them, make sure you do not go by any paragraph, sentence, or word that you do not understand the meaning of.

Use the tips provided in the following posts:

  1. Blanks in Understanding
  2. The Earlier Blanks
  3. Filling the Blanks

Good luck!

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October 9, 2022 – 9:59 AM Categories: Subject Clearing | Comments (1)

The Listing Process

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

The Process

The Listing process is very useful when you have a number of things to handle. For example, when you have a number of subjects that you do not understand; you do the following:

  1. Make a list of the subjects you do not understand.
  2. Arrange them in some logical order with most significant at the top.
  3. Handle the subjects on that list one at a time starting from the top.

Here a subject could mean a school subject, such as, grammar, mathematics, or biology. It could also be an area of knowledge, such as, education, logic or teaching. Or it could be a life skill, such as, communicating, problem solving or meditating. You make a list of whatever is taking up your attention.

Next, arrange those items on the list in the order they are important to you, or in the order that you would like to handle them. You may also arrange them in a logical order, where handling an item will make the handling of the next item easier. Make sure you rearrange all the items on the list.

When you have done that, then take the first item on that list, and concentrate on handling that item only.

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A Complex Item

When that first item that you are handling happens to be complex, you may break it down further into its parts and apply the listing process to those parts. For example, if the first item on your list of subjects is mathematics, then make a list of all those parts of mathematics that you do not understand. You, then, arrange them in an order, such that, understanding a part will make it easier to understand the next part.

If the first item on that list of the parts of mathematics is still complex, you may break it down to another level, and apply the listing process once again. Such a breakdown may come down even to a list of words; and then to a list of definitions of a word.

You continue the breakdown until the first item on the list becomes easy to handle.

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Handling

Once the first item is handled, it is possible that all the confusion is gone and the rest of the items on that list needs no further handling. If this is not the case, then you need to reevaluate the whole list, at least. So, after you have handled the first item, you make the list newly once again at that level. You may find that some of the earlier items are gone, but some new items have appeared on the list. You rearrange the list, and handle the first item on this new list.

Thus, each time you have handled the first item, you repeat the Listing process at that level. Soon you may find that the whole list is handled, and you move one level back up. You continue in this manner, and, very soon, your doubts, perplexities and confusions on that whole subject will be cleared up.

Then you newly make a list of subjects that you want to handle.

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Summary

Once your doubts, perplexities and confusions on a subject are cleared up, you will understand exactly what you know and what you don’t know. If you are further interested in that subject, you may now pick up relevant materials to study.

Or, you make a new list of subjects that you want to handle.

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October 8, 2022 – 8:13 PM Categories: Subject Clearing | Post a comment

The Prelogics (Scientology)

Reference: Subject: Logic

L. Ron Hubbard analyzed life in its relationship to matter, energy, space and time and as a result evolved the Pre-logics. These were published in late 1951 as a result of many years of research into the nature of life and the spirituality of man.

Knowledge is a pyramid, and knowledge as a pyramid has a common denominator which evaluates all other data below it. At the top point of this pyramid, we have what could be called a Q, and it could also be called a common denominator. It is in common to every other datum in this pyramid full of data.

The Qs are the highest echelon from which all other things are derived.

Q came from quod in Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum, meaning “which was to be shown or demonstrated,” used especially in mathematical proofs).

Actually, Q can be defined this way: It is the level from which we are now viewing, which is a common denominator to all experience which we can now view. This is the level which acts as a common denominator to all this experience, and is the highest level from which we are operating. This data, then, would stand behind everything else that we do.

Q simply means the most common datum that sums all other data.

The Prelogics provide the starting postulates for the subject of logic. Hubbard starts with the postulate of SELF-DETERMINISM. But this postulate applies to the human self and not to all reality. The revised Q’s start with the following postulates:

(1) The Reality is defined by ONENESS. In other words, reality is continuous, consistent and harmonious.

(2) The Reality is infused by the impulse to evolve. This impulse later develops into self-determinism in human self.

Scientology is human-centric. Subject Clearing uses the context of universal reality.

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SCIENTOLOGY Q1: Self-determinism is the common denominator of all life impulses.

The impulse to evolve is inherent to all reality. This impulse manifests as self-impelled motion of the light and the electrons. In case of life organisms the motion becomes much more complex and ultimately manifests as human self making its own choices. This is self-determinism.

Revised Q1: The impulse to evolve is the common denominator of all reality. It develops into self-determinism in human self.

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SCIENTOLOGY Q2: Definition of self-determinism: the ability to locate in space and time, energy and matter, also the ability to create space and time in which to create and locate energy and matter.

The substance of the universe is conserved. Therefore, a change in one location is compensated by change(s) elsewhere. Any apparent creation is essentially a change at a location with consequences elsewhere. The self-determinism of human self allows it to make changes by choice, but it has consequences.

Revised Q2: Definition of self-determinism: The ability to make changes with responsibility for the consequences.

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SCIENTOLOGY Q3: The identification of the source of that which places matter and energy and originates space and time is not necessary to the resolution of this problem at this time.

Self-impelled motion is built into the universe. Since the universe is one continuous system, this motion is balanced throughout the universe as kinetic and potential energies. However, some motion is controlled by life, and much more so by human self. When the human self remains true to its basic nature, the motion it controls is devoted entirely to evolution.

Revised Q3: The source of change is the impulse to evolve, that is naturally concentrated the most in human self.

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SCIENTOLOGY Q4: Theta creates space, energy and objects by postulates.

Theta is the spiritual dimension of the impulse to evolve. MEST is the physical dimension of the manifestation of that evolution. Space, energy and objects are parts of that manifestation. Instead of “creating” theta manifests as space, energy and objects. This is analogous to potential energy manifesting as kinetic energy.

Revised Q4: Theta naturally manifests as space, energy and objects with its impulse to evolve.

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SCIENTOLOGY Q5: Universes are created by the application of self-determinism on eight dynamics.

There is only one universe and that is the manifestation of the eighth dynamic. Any “sub-universe” is created (with its consequent anti-sub-universe elsewhere) within this universe. The universe, essentially, evolves within its constraint of oneness. This evolution is accelerated through the self-determinism of human self. 

Revised Q5: The evolution of the universe on eight dynamics is accelerated by the self-determinism of human self.

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SCIENTOLOGY Q6: Self-determinism, applied, will create, alter, conserve and possibly destroy universes.

In terms of evolution, new abilities and forms are created, existing abilities and forms are altered, and some abilities and forms are completely replaced. This process is accelerated through the self-determinism of human self.

Revised Q6: Self-determinism not only updates what exists but also replaces old abilities and forms completely with new ones.

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SCIENTOLOGY Q 7: The action cycle is one of the abilities of a thetan. An action cycle goes from 40.0 to 0.0 on the Tone Scale. An action cycle is the creation, growth, conservation, decay and death or destruction of energy and matter in a space. Action cycles produce time.

Thetan refers to the human self. The action cycle is the cycle of bringing change from start to finish, which then repeats again. The change goes through creation, growth, conservation, decay and death or destruction. It consists of a sequence in time.

40.0 on the Tone Scale is a beingness that is free and detached from everything. 0.0 is a beingness that is bound and constrained. An action cycle represents the transformation of beingness from freedom to fixation. As these cycles repeat, increasingly complex forms are generated.

Revised Q7: The thetan uses action cycles to bring about evolution.

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October 8, 2022 – 11:57 AM Categories: Scientology | Comments (1)

Subject: Logic

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

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LOGIC

  1. ARISTOTLE: The Foundation of Logic
  2. SCN 8-8008: Logic
  3. The Prelogics (Scientology)
  4. The Logics (Scientology)
  5. The Data Series (Scientology)
  6. The Logic of Data Series
  7. The Eastern View of Logic
  8. Subject Clearing Logic
  9. The Ideal Scene of LOGIC

POSTULATES

  1. Relativity and the Problem of Space Einstein, 1952
  2. The Boundary of Space December 12, 2015
  3. Einstein, Space & Time December 14, 2015
  4. Viewpoint & Objectivity December 15, 2015
  5. Logical Consistency December 19, 2015

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October 6, 2022 – 4:26 PM Categories: Subject Clearing | Post a comment

Reality and Anomaly

Reference: Course on Subject Clearing

Earlier, in an overview, the following was stated:

“We do not know what the exact form of a complete universe may look like. So, we postulate a ONENESS as expressed by the word UNIVERSE (entire, all, literally, turned into one). That means, the reality of the universe is a unity. This translates as the universe being continuous, consistent and harmonious.” ~Mind and the Universe

The mental matrix is a copy of the universe. According to the postulate above, the mental matrix is continuous, consistent and harmonious in all its dimensions. Since the mental matrix forms our reality,

The ideal scene of reality is that it is continuous, consistent and harmonious. 

Any discontinuity, inconsistency or disharmony shall point to an anomaly within the mental matrix and in our reality. The dictionary defines “anomaly” as something irregular, odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality, etc. It is an incongruity or inconsistency. In Subject Clearing, ANOMALY is defined more precisely as follows:

An anomaly is any violation of the integrity of reality, such as, discontinuity (missing data), inconsistency (contradictory data), or disharmony (arbitrary data).

The anomalies that we notice in the “external world” are actually anomalies in how we perceive the external world. These anomalies are resolved when we look at the situation more closely and obtain the actual experience.

Science uses the scientific method, consisting of observation and experimentation, to resolve anomalies in the “external world”.

The anomalies that we notice in ourselves, are actually anomalies in the mental matrix. Such anomalies make it difficult for the person to think rationally and resolve the anomalies in perception (external anomalies). These anomalies are resolved when we recognize the past impressions not fully assimilated in our mental matrix.

The resolution of anomalies in the mental matrix is the domain of meditation in ancient Yoga, the psychoanalysis in psychology, and the auditing in Scientology. 

In general, an anomaly flags the presence of an impression on the mental matrix that is not fully assimilated. The unassimilated impression usually takes the form of  a fixed idea, anxiety or pain. It is usually covered up by a justification or an assumption. When one spots the assumption and tracks it down, the impression assimilates, and the anomaly resolves. 

Subject clearing is about discovering anomalies in the subject we are interested in and resolving them through various methods that allow us to inspect them more closely. 

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October 6, 2022 – 7:56 AM Categories: Subject Clearing | Post a comment